Relevance of time-varying and time-invariant retrieval error sources on the utility of spaceborne soil moisture products

Details Relevance of time-varying and time-invariant retrieval error sources on the utility of spaceborne soil moisture products Relevance of time-varying and time-invariant retrieval error sources on the utility of spaceborne soil moisture products

Dec 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3224405c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 24, CiteID L24405

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Hydrology: Modeling, Hydrology: Remote Sensing (1640), Hydrology: Soil Moisture

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Errors in remotely-sensed soil moisture retrievals originate from a combination of time-invariant and time-varying sources. For land modeling applications such as forecast initialization, some of the impact of time-invariant sources can be removed given known differences between observed and modeled soil moisture climatologies. Nevertheless, the distinction is seldom made when evaluating remotely-sensed soil moisture products. Here we describe an Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) for radiometer-only soil moisture products derived from the NASA Hydrosphere States (Hydros) mission where the impact of time-invariant errors is explicitly removed via the linear rescaling of retrievals. OSSE results for the 575,000 km2 Red-Arkansas River Basin indicate that climatological rescaling may significantly reduce the perceived magnitude of Hydros soil moisture retrieval errors and expands the geographic areas over which retrievals demonstrate value for land surface modeling applications.

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